{"id":18254,"date":"2019-07-06T19:02:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18254"},"modified":"2019-07-06T19:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:02:51","slug":"minister-of-education-job-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/minister-of-education-job-creators\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Minister of Education wishes to see \u2018job creators\u2019 graduating university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a recent speech, Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mehmood explained that he would like to see <strong>universities in the country sending out job creators instead of job seekers.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to him, it is vital for Pakistan\u2019s prosperity that <strong>university educated people create new work opportunities, rather than seeking already available ones.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In his speech, Mr. Mehmood further accentuated to universities that their curriculums and teachings should reflect the country\u2019s need for individuals with the capability to create work opportunities, thus creating an educated majority, which will boost the economy in Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are the Ministers doing?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To aid universities in their mission to educate motivated young entrepreneurs, <strong>Minister Mehmood and his colleagues have been working on informational manuals.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) guides will be made available to schools around Pakistan so that <strong>the quality of education throughout the whole country improves in the levels preceding higher education.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the rector of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comsats.edu.pk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COMSATS<\/a> University in Islamabad, Professor Raheel Qamar, these efforts on the government&#8217;s part are an essential step of the process of improving higher education in Pakistan. He also added that <strong>Minister Mehmood and his colleagues could further assist higher education by providing more funding for student-owned start-up companies and projects.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Mr. Qamar, it is vital that there is a balance in the <strong>support for both liberal subjects and ones focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/top-5-blockchain-courses-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, Minister Mehmood has reasonably explained that the recent rise in taxes for education was necessary so that the state can provide efficient support for the educational system.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent speech, Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mehmood explained that he would like to see universities in the country sending out job creators instead of job seekers. According to him, it is vital for Pakistan\u2019s prosperity that university educated people create new work opportunities, rather than seeking already available ones.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[341,726,804,1063],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}